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Take your family history out of the attic! It is the backbone of your personal history; it’s what you will pass on to future generations. The photographs, heirloom objects and stories that make up your family archive should not just collect dust in boxes. In this class, you will use journaling, memoir, embodied writing and research to take stock of your family archive and look at ways to bring your family history to life, present and relevant today.
After attending last year’s TLAN conference at the gorgeous Unity Village, I’m excited to be back and presenting a brand new workshop: Speaking with the Ancestors: Magical Realism and your Family Story. Join me in Kansas City, MO this October for an inspirational weekend!
This thorough introduction to Transformative Language Arts (TLA) encompasses the personal and the global, the contemporary and the historic, and how TLA can be practiced through writing, storytelling, performance, song, and collaborative, expressive and integrated arts.
I am thrilled to be teaching this class again - I love showing students all the ways they can “do TLA” and how to bring their word practices out into their community.
We activate the tangible objects in our archives when we tell their story. From telling the history behind a single photo or heirloom to juxtaposing generational recurrences in nonlinear formats, this workshop will demonstrate how we can create new meaning in our family stories by engaging deeply with the things we and our ancestors have saved. Participants may bring family heirlooms, but can also work with digital photos, memories, or objects in the room.
